English-Language Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

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• Question 2421:

  Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

  He needn't have bought that table?

  Options:
  A) It isn't possible that he bought the table
  B) He bought the table, but it wasn't necessary
  C) He didn't buy the table because it wasn,t necessary
  D) He doesn't need to buy the table
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2422: Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the lists provided.Whenever we have _____ we feel better? Options:
  A) a long good talk together
  B) a good long talk together
  C) together a long good talk
  D) together a good long talk
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2423:

  Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;

  Last week the _____ at the theater was the longest i had ever seen

  Options:
  A) assembly
  B) congregation
  C) convention
  D) audience
  E) crowd
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2424:

  This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  Teemah is the first ________ of the family

  Options:
  A) child
  B) graduate
  C) daughter
  D) female
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2425:

  In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word underlined:

  The instructions on the examination paper are explicit

  Options:
  A) simple
  B) ambiguous
  C) detailed
  D) definite
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2426:

  It is customary nowadays among fashionable ladies and gentlemen to acquire strange and sometimes quaint cloths which are scarcely ever used. Sometimes it may be an approaching festival; sometimes a two hour ceremony and sometimes to honour a dead colleague – something triggers off the modern craze to sew new materials whose use does not outlast the moment of craze. And so, people who just occupy small apartments in their parents’ homes, or have rented one room in a densely – peopled house find that more than two- thirds of their rooms are filled with bongo trousers which they cannot wear, worn out jeans which stinks, or specially made clothes for occasions that are not recurrent.

  Although plagued by the problem of school fees for their children, parents have had to swallow their own phlegm and humour their children who need special clothes for important events. Newly employed youths soon find that their comrades getting married, and a new and special attire must be used to grace the occasion. University students see matriculation ceremonies or induction ceremonies into club membership as special reasons to make new attire which – you may be sure they would not wear on another occasion that parallels the one for which these clothes were made.

  Medical doctors may soon find another cause for the incidence of high blood pressure among the youth. The desire to acquire new clothes is one strong possible cause, but a more subtle one which haunts like a ghost is the problem of choice of what to wear. The youths have so stuffed their apartments, wardrobes, drawers and trunks with so many clothes that the greatest problem they face is the choice of what to wear.

  A likely cause of high blood pressure among the youths is Options:
  A) the clothes they wear to parties
  B) that different clothes are meant for different occasions
  C) that the youth have stuffed their wardrobes, apartments and drawars with new clothes
  D) the thought of the choice of what to wear
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2427:

  In the question below, choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fills the gap(s).

  The first graduation ceremony of the university was attended by men from all ______ of life.

  Options:
  A) Works
  B) Areas
  C) Walks
  D) Parts
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2428:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the word underlined?

  The shortage of petrol was a perennial problem?

  Options:
  A) a recurring
  B) a seasonal
  C) an annual
  D) an incurable
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2429: Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.We cannot all wear expensive shoes in situation of _____ ? Options:
  A) divergent demand and supply
  B) uneven wear and tear
  C) differing purchasing power
  D) unpredicted national income
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2430:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word.

  Always strive to get what is legitimate?

  Options:
  A) illicit
  B) legal
  C) good
  D) impure
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  The correct answer is A .